Tuesday, February 05, 2008

New 2009 Prez will inherit Bush's 8 year mess.







• Addresses Immediate Economic Challenges
• Ensures Sustained Prosperity
• Keeps America Safe
• Balances the Budget by 2012


Addresses Immediate Economic Challenges


• Includes a bipartisan economic growth package that spurs investment and strengthens the Nation’s economy.
• Promotes and preserves the American dream of homeownership though education and assistance to combat foreclosures and maintain a stable, healthy housing market.


Ensures Sustained Prosperity


• Makes tax relief permanent for long-term economic growth and sustainability.
• Improves Americans’ access to affordable health care by fostering a private marketplace, encouraging competition and improving efficiency.
• Builds on the success of the No Child Left Behind Act by supporting proposals to reauthorize and strengthen the law and increase our students’ competitiveness.
• Keeps the U.S. the most innovative nation in the world by implementing the American Competitiveness Initiative.
• Increases energy security by focusing on renewables, accelerating technological breakthroughs and expanding traditional sources to reduce our reliance on foreign oil.


Keeps America Safe


• Supports the national defense and funding for America’s troops.
• Enhances homeland security and terrorism prevention.
• Promotes peace, democracy, and economic opportunity worldwide through diplomatic, development, and reconstruction activities and increased civilian capabilities.


Balances the Budget by 2012


• Maintains proven pro-growth policies – keeping taxes low and restraining government spending – to ensure the deficit up-tick is temporary and manageable.
• Continues to address the long-term challenge of unsustainable entitlement spending.
• Improves results of government programs and instills greater transparency so that taxpayer dollars are spent wisely, or not at all.
• Introduces a new culture of accountability on wasteful earmarks.




PDF documents:


· Budget Overview
· Management Overview
· Defense
· Homeland Security
· Veterans
· State and International
· Justice
· Agriculture
· Environment
· Interior
· National Aeronautics and Space Administration
· Economy
· Earmarks
· Health Care
· Education
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Energy
· Housing and Urban Development
· Labor
· Commerce
· Treasury
· Transportation
· Budget Charts



http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/




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